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Billy's custom pickup and right-hand technique

Billy's custom pickup and right-hand technique

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Billy's custom pickup and right-hand technique

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- There's several other components on my bass or aspects to it, that help me do some of the things I do, which may help you if you want to expand your planning or maybe go off in a different direction. One of them has been very, very important to me and it was such a big help and so vital to a lot of my right-hand technique that I actually was afraid about telling it for a long time 'cause I was afraid someone else, everyone else is going to grab it and I'd be left in the cold because it's such an essential component of the ability to play really fast with your right hand. So I had to make a concious decision whether or not to keep it a secret or not and at one point, I just said, "Ah, what the heck. "I might as well tell people." Most of licks I have I've stolen from someone else anyway, so it's only fair. Now here it is. Basically, on my, on all my basses, I have this pick up here. The P-style pick up. This is a DiMarzio Will Power pick up. It's a special pick up DiMarzio makes for…

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